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The Jeffrey Epstein case is why people believe in Pizzagate
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Posted on 07/14/2019 7:19:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws

The arrest of the apparent billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein at a New Jersey airport on Saturday on federal charges for crimes he was accused of during the Bush administration should not be surprising to anyone who has followed the news carefully. He may have escaped in 2008 with a ludicrous one-year stint in a county jail that he was allowed to leave six days a week, but his name has never quite been out of the headlines. Between 2008 and 2015 Epstein reportedly settled more than a dozen lawsuits from Jane Does alleging sexual assault; the youngest of his alleged victims was 14 years old.

The only question is why did it take this long? Why was the ludicrous deal that gave Epstein and his fellow conspirators immunity in exchange for a slap-on-the-wrist jail sentence ever allowed to go through in the first place?

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The most obvious answer is, of course, that Epstein knows people. Lots of people. A list of his reported friends, business associates, and legal counselors reads like a #MeToo and Manhattan sleazebag All-Star team, with a few stringers pulled in from the media and both political parties: Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Mort Zuckerman, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr, Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, the current president of the United States. The obscene deal that kept Epstein out of what could easily have been a life sentence in prison was negotiated by Alexander Acosta, the current Secretary of Labor, who was then a federal prosecutor in Florida. In 2002, Graydon Carter, the longtime editor of Vanity Fair, removed references to Epstein's sexual activity from a profile, including testimony from alleged victims, according to the article's author. "He's sensitive about the young women," Carter is said to have explained. Won't somebody please not think of the children?

It will be at least another week before 2,000 or so pages of documents related to Epstein's exploits will be released following the order of an appeals court last week. When we finally see them we will likely be able to answer questions about the identities of the "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister, and other world leaders" who have also been accused of sexual abuse by Epstein's alleged victims. Is one of them a Razorbacks football fan? Who was the "famous prime minister"? Was Trump speaking from personal experience when he said in 2002 that Epstein "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"?

We should keep all of this in mind the next time we feel inclined to sneer at so-called "low-information voters," especially the kookier sort. You know the people I mean. Wackos. Gun nuts. 8channers. Conspiracy theorists in Middle America who watch InfoWars (one of the few journalistic outlets to discuss the issue of pedophilia regularly) and post about QAnon and "spirit cooking" and the lizard people. The news that a globalized cabal of billionaires and politicians and journalists and Hollywood bigwigs might be flying around the world raping teenaged girls will not surprise them in the least because it is what they have long suspected. For the rest of us it is like finding out that the Jersey Devil is real or turning on cable news and finding Anderson Cooper and his panel engaged in a matter-of-fact discussion of Elvis’s residence among the Zixls on the 19th moon of

Why Trump should welcome France's tech tax Among other things, the Epstein case forces us to ask ourselves some uncomfortable questions about the real meaning of "fake" news. There is, or should be, more to being informed than fact-checking formalism. If you have spent the last few years earnestly consuming mainstream left-of-center media in this country you will be under the impression that the United States has fallen under the control of a spray-tanned Mussolini clone who is never more than five minutes away from making birth control illegal. If you watch Fox News and read conservative publications, you no doubt bemoan the fact that Ronald Reagan's heir is being hamstrung by a bunch of avocado toast-eating feminist witches. Meanwhile, Alex Jones's audience will tell you that America, like the rest of the world, is ruled by a depraved internationalist elite whose ultimate allegiance is not to countries or political parties or ideologies but to one another. These people believe in nothing. They will safeguard their wealth and privilege at any cost. They will never break rank. And they will commit unspeakable crimes with impunity, while anyone who dares to speculate openly is sued or hounded out of public life as a kook.

Which of these worldviews is closest to the truth?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; conspiracytheory; epstein; pizzagate
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1 posted on 07/14/2019 7:19:56 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Yeah yeah yeah ... even whacko right wing conspiracy nuts got one right... a stopped clock and all that ... now back to our regularly scheduled program of whacko right-wing conspiracy theories.


3 posted on 07/14/2019 7:25:21 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: TigerClaws

The question is not- Is pizza-gate real?
The question is and always has been- Why aren’t the rich and connected pedophiles given the same scrutiny that your local sex offenders are given?


4 posted on 07/14/2019 7:26:42 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: AndyJackson

Thanks for caring about the children.


5 posted on 07/14/2019 7:28:55 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: TigerClaws
Yes, DailyMail photoshopped the photos of 3 women together to keep things compact. No, they didn't smash in into each other in real life, dayum..!

Photo that will haunt the Clintons FOREVER:

Molester/trafficker/spy beaming at your daugher’s wedding.

6 posted on 07/14/2019 7:31:01 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TigerClaws

100 years in SuperMax, shuffling around, shackled?

No, 13 months. In prison? No, in local jail.

Full time? No, only on the weekends. During weekdays he just SLEPT in jail.

After driving there from work at home, and checking himself in —basically a bad Motel 6.

To jailers who worked for HIM, after he hired them.

And during that whole time he continued getting “visits from female friends” at his palatial home.


7 posted on 07/14/2019 7:34:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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The wealthy and elite are not going to go to all the trouble of speaking in code, flying to private islands, and 8 figure payoffs to hide having sex with loose women in their 20s. Just look at the art Podesta had in his mansion, look at Spirit Cooking and ask yourself why any sane person would consider that art. What type of grown men dance naked around a giant owl statue and offer it a burnt offering?


8 posted on 07/14/2019 7:36:17 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Why aren’t the rich and connected pedophiles given the same scrutiny that your local sex offenders are given?

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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


9 posted on 07/14/2019 7:36:47 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.)
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To: TigerClaws

Actress Ellen Barkin:

”Ghislaine Maxwell told me, point-blank, that she was personally flying girls out to Epstein’s island.”

10 posted on 07/14/2019 7:38:20 PM PDT by gaijin
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After driving there from work at home, and checking himself in —basically a bad Motel 6.

I'd be willing to bet his cell was upgraded nicely. He wasn't sleeping on a two inch thick mattress.

11 posted on 07/14/2019 7:39:24 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
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To: KarlInOhio

THAT was the part I forgot:

He was in his own empty WING of the jail.

He NEVER had any contact with other prisoners.

You or me?

Our hearts would be thumping in the chow line, we’d take the briefest of showers, waiting for that veiny black stump to bump into our hinter-regions:

Epstein endured NONE of that.

His “jail experience” was utterly unlike anything you or I would have to face.


12 posted on 07/14/2019 7:41:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TigerClaws

Just be thankful that you’re just an average simple person with morals. And remember that all of these deviants will pay for their sins by doing backstrokes in the lake of fire while you will be residing in the house of the Lord FOREVER with true justice and happiness.


13 posted on 07/14/2019 7:42:43 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: TigerClaws
The news that a globalized cabal of billionaires and politicians and journalists and Hollywood bigwigs might be flying around the world raping teenaged girls will not surprise them in the least because it is what they have long suspected.

What?! You think these sleaze balls are sexist?!!

I am willing to bet that there are plenty of teenage boys being molested and raped as well!

14 posted on 07/14/2019 7:44:18 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: gaijin
The other day CrazyDaysAndNights dot net stated:

Wexner found himself finally married up to a woman he found he no longer loved; it was via Wexner's relationship with his younger, more virile pervvy friend that Wexner met and began a long affair with a younger woman who reinvigorated Wexner, gave his long life new meaning.

So Wexner was grateful to Epstein and sold Epstein his Manhatten residence --the biggest private residence on Manhatten Island-- for the grand sum of ONE DOLLAR.

Yes, a then $66M piece of real estate for the price of a candy bar.


15 posted on 07/14/2019 7:44:40 PM PDT by gaijin
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1998, St. Thomas Beach, 0.5 miles from LSJ's Island:

"They're so in love that they began spontaneously dancing on this beach..! Monica didn't matter, you see..?! NOT staged..! Oh, uh...the music was IN THEIR HEADS..!"

(yuge snicker..!)

16 posted on 07/14/2019 7:49:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TigerClaws

The pizza parlor that was the focus of the Pizzagate stories is just a few doors up the street from the Poetry and Prose Bookstore on Connecticut Ave. NW, often featured on Book TV. It seems to be a hangout for liberal-left types. They have a huge inventory of books for sale but not many conservative authors.

If you’re in DC and hungry for pizza, Ledo’s or Sette Osteria are better—and safer—choices.


17 posted on 07/14/2019 7:50:30 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: HighSierra5

AMEN


18 posted on 07/14/2019 7:50:47 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: gaijin

for the grand sum of ONE DOLLAR.


https://www.thelog.com/ask-the-attorney/why-does-my-boat-sales-contract-say-1-and-other-valuable-consideration/

The phrase “one dollar and other valuable consideration” is used as standard boilerplate language in many legal documents. Fundamental principles of contract law require each of the parties to exchange something of value, and there can be no enforceable agreement without that exchange. The “value” that is exchanged is referred to as “consideration,” and in most cases the courts will not challenge the actual amount of the exchanged consideration, so long that it has some recognizable form of value. The “one dollar and other valuable consideration” language is often used as a generic term, where the document needs to be enforceable but there is no reason to recite the amount or the nature of the actual consideration that is exchanged.


19 posted on 07/14/2019 7:52:09 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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The Pedogate Pedophile Scandal Info In 2013?
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Published on Nov 26, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: Tip from a former insider at The Blaze. Glenn Beck has been sitting on an explosive scandal that would rock Washington D.C. and beyond since 2013. That summer an intermediary was approached with information by a whistleblower who was so terrified for his life he said he would only come forward with this scandal in front of Congress on live television. Just one of the documents, which was viewed by Glenn Beck & his staff, was enough alone to bring down the power structure throughout our nation’s capital. We were told that when this information was presented, it was so extreme, that the “blood literally ran out of the faces of everyone at The Blaze who heard it.” Glenn announced that he would be going into more detail on all of this the following day (a Friday). Friday came and went without a single mention. We’re told that, immediately after Glenn’s broadcast on Thursday, Glenn received the most serious, in the flesh, death threat to both him and his family he’d ever received in his career. In fact, the threat was so severe it altered the course of his life and of his show/network forever. After this happened a series of mysterious changes took place from then until now with Glenn’s company, his personality, and his health. This event may explain much of what’s happened to him mentally in recent years and why he backed off from being the “tip of the spear” that he once was in the past. Was this about the Pizza Gate scandal that is breaking worldwide after being exposed via Wikileaks? Is the fact that The Blaze & Glenn Beck decided not to report this, which likely led to the torture and rape of hundreds of additional children since 2013, the reason for his mental breakdowns & recent unworthy praise of Democrats and the Obamas? We call upon Glenn and The Blaze to please release this scandal information NOW to the American people or get the information into the hands of a third party for release before any more innocent lives suffer or are destroyed.


20 posted on 07/14/2019 7:54:11 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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